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It’s fascinating that while the San Francisco Bay Area is often hailed as the center of technical innovation and social change (and deservedly so) many companies are still operating with old and traditional mindsets of workforce development and community engagement...

The PF office is at the heart of Silicon Valley, where new ideas and new approaches are constantly brewing, and ‘innovation’ is a word you hear daily. In the PF priorities, after People, the Idea is the second element we are concerned with-- “the relative importance of an idea, whether it matters...

One Friday evening I had a few minutes to decompress and like many people do I pulled out my phone to see what I could catch up on. After browsing Instagram I tapped my work inbox. A couple of new messages, one of which was pertinent to our Regional Portfolio, so I quickly forwarded it...

Looking back, I’m embarrassed at my naivety. I raised two kids as a single mom, all the while climbing my way up the corporate ladder. I became a successful Venture Capitalist, and then took the helm as CEO of Napster and another high-tech startup. After that, I thought solving homelessness...

In 2001, a group of 17 software developers met at the Snowbird resort in Utah to discuss alternative ways of building software, and published the influential “Manifesto for Agile Software Development”. The roots of the Agile movement can actually be...

This September we were excited to welcome Lindsey Padjen as Program Associate. She will be supporting our grantees and Portfolio Directors, as well as sourcing pipeline. Here is a message from Lindsey with a little more background about herself and her journey to the Peery Foundation...

Recently on Funder Feedback we asked our grantees to anonymously weigh in on these questions: “What advice do you have for funders preparing for site visits? What makes a site visit easier/better for you?” People had a lot to say on this subject. We got so many fabulous suggestions...